The reason to preserve wilderness is that we need it. We need wilderness of all kinds, large and small, public and private. Wee need to go now and again into places where our work is disallowed, where our hopes and plans have no standing. We need to come into the presence of the unqualified and mysterious formality of Creation.

What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.

The world, which God looked at and found entirely good, we find none too good to pollute entirely and destroy piecemeal.

We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough

From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of government and art, from the union of science and money, from the union of ambition and ignorance, from the union of genius and war, from the union of outer space and inner vacuity, the Mad Farmer walks quietly away.